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Obama Administration bypasses CISPA, allowing Internet Surveillance
Scared that CISPA might pass? The federal government is already using a secretive cybersecurity program to monitor online traffic and enforce CISPA-like data sharing between Internet service providers and the Department of Defense.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has obtained over 1,000 pages of documents pertaining to the United States government’s use of a cybersecurity program after...
American Free Press: UK Bilderberg 2013 Meeting Confirmed
American Free Press received e-mail from Grove Hotel staffer, apparently confirming that Bilderberg 2013 will be going down near Watford in the United Kingdom from June 6-9.
AFP’s Mark Anderson reports that he received an e-mail from a Grove Hotel employee, apparently confirming a UK-based Bilderberg meeting this coming June. Anderson writes:
“An email reply to AFP from a Grove staffer and a...
Spain jobless rate hits new record
People wait in line at a government employment office in Madrid, Spain.
Official data show that the unemployment rate in Spain climbed to a new record of 27.16 percent of the workforce in the first quarter of 2013.
According to new figures released by Spain’s National Statistics Institute on Thursday, the total number of unemployed people in the country has passed the six million mark, reaching to...
3 hurt as 7 massive blasts rock Mobile, Alabama shipyard
A series of seven large blasts on a fuel barge in Mobile, Alabama, rocked the area Wednesday night, critically injuring three. An evacuation zone was set up after firefighters were unable to put out the blaze, which they hope will burn out overnight.
The first blast occurred on a natural gas barge on the east side of the Mobile River at around 8:30pm local time, and was followed shortly afterwards...
French police clash with anti-gay marriage protesters
Police clash with protesters demonstrating against a bill that legalizes same-sex marriages, Paris, France, March 24, 2013.
French police have clashed with thousands of demonstrators in the capital, Paris, protesting against the approval of a bill that legalizes gay marriages and adoptions for same-sex couples by the country’s parliament.
Tuesday night, police fired tear gas at the angry protesters...
Kids filmed firing heavy arsenal at terror training Camp in Pakistan
Video footage allegedly showing Kindergarten-aged children firing an arsenal of heavy firepower at a terrorist training camp in Pakistan’s tribal area has surfaced online.
Young children garbed in shalwar kameez can be seen lined up in neat rows, straining under the recoil as they fire semi-automatic pistols.
Moments later, footage shows a kneeling child who is dwarfed by his AK47. The boy struggles...
llegal Immigrant Testifies Before Senate, Wants ‘American Dream’ for Her 11 Million Cohorts
On Monday, April 22, self-proclaimed “bicultural undocumented American” Gaby Pacheco addressed the Senate Judiciary Committee and called upon the “Gang of Eight” to please “give me, my family, and 11 million of us an opportunity to fully integrate and achieve our American Dream.” The 11 million of “us” she was referring to are the estimated 11 million “Americans” who, along with...
16,000 complaints filed against Turkey for Human Rights abuses at the ECHR
Human rights activists march in Turkey to condemn human rights violations.
A record 16,000 complaints have been filed against Turkey with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), a senior lawyer with the court says.
“As far as the severity of the cases [are concerned], Turkey is number one,” Hasan Bakirci, who heads the Legal Department of ECHR, was quoted by the German television, ZDF, as saying.
Amnesty...
WikiLeaks wins case against Visa contractor ordered to pay $204k per month if blockade not lifted
Iceland’s Supreme Court has ruled that Valitor (formerly Visa Iceland) must pay WikiLeaks $204,900 per month or $2,494,604 per year in fines if it continues to blockade the whistle-blowing site.
The court upheld the decision that Valitor had unlawfully terminated its contract with WikiLeaks’ donation processor, DataCell.
“Today’s decision marked the most important victory to...
Sweden's jobless rises to 8.8%
Swedes stand waiting at a job fair in the northern city of Arjeplog.
The Swedish national statistics office has reported that the country’s unemployment rate increased to an unadjusted 8.8 percent, mostly caused by a reckless immigration program. A 2011 Statistics Sweden (SCB) report showed that around 1.858.000 (19.6%) inhabitants of Sweden had foreign background.
Statistics Sweden (SCB) published...
Beijing slams US 'woeful record of human rights'
The US turns a blind eye to human rights issues, seriously threatening the lives of its citizens, a Chinese report claims. The damning analysis of US human rights abuses is Beijing’s retaliation to a Washington report decrying the Chinese government.
The report’s release on Chinese state outlet Xinhua accused Washington of “double standards” and turning a “blind eye to its woeful record...
US media targets Russia, not poor security, for Boston attacks
The American National Security State failed to protect the American people yet again, this time in Boston, Massachusetts. Twelve years of ramping up federal, state and local venues with billions of dollars worth of anti-terrorism training, intelligence fusion centers, and equipment was for nothing. Chasing “the terrorists” around the world for ten years whether by remotely piloted vehicles...
French parliament adopts gay marriage bill despite protests
French people protest against gay marriage ahead of parliament vote in Paris on April 23, 2013.
French parliament has adopted a bill legalizing gay marriages and adoptions for same-sex couples, despite massive opposition protests.
The lower house National Assembly, where President Francois Hollande’s Socialists have an absolute majority, approved the bill on Tuesday with 331 votes against 225.
Before...
US rejects North Korea's demands to be recognized as a nuke state
Washington has refused to recognize North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, effectively closing the door on negotiations with Pyongyang. North Korea said it would only conduct talks with the US as an equal nuclear state.
“North Korea’s demand to be recognized as a nuclear weapons state is neither realistic nor acceptable,” US Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation...
NASA Discovers Three More Potentially Habitable Alien Worlds
The mission has discovered “two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the ‘habitable zone,’ the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water.”
Five planets are in the Kepler-62 system, and two planets are in the Kepler-69 system. Two planets from the Kepler-62 system–62e and 62f–and one...